Citizens of the Swiss Republic in New South Wales
[Translation.]
the citizens of the swiss republic in new south wales.
To the honorable the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the United States of America:
We, the citizens of the Swiss republic, resident at New South Wales, have been requested by Signor John Baptist Modini, one of our countrymen, to assemble in order, as sons of another free republic, to condole with you, the Congress of America, on the very sad calamity that has befallen your nation, and to express our heartfelt sorrow and sympathetic grief for the immense loss you have sustained by the atrocious murder of your great devoted champion of liberty, President Abraham Lincoln.
We, by birth sons of another free republic, cannot refrain from giving expression of sympathy for your great loss, being ourselves brought up under free principles, and owe it to ourselves and to the republic of which we are citizens to declare our abhorrence of the crime which has deprived humanity of one of its greatest ornaments.
To Mrs. Lincoln and family we offer the respectful condolence of our sympathy with the sufferings which it is some consolation to know are in a degree shared by the world at large, but which are assuaged by the consideration that Mr. Lincoln’s work and best efforts had already gained the approval and admiration of every free and enlightened people.
- J. B. MODINI.
- AUGUSTO ANDREOLL.
- ORIOLA AFIRO.
- LORENZO BERTA.
- GOVANNI GAYLIARDI.
- FRANCESCO GALLI.
And forty other names.